SVHS unit 3 quizzes
[3.2] The make up of the North:
- 48% of the population were farmers. -Manufactured 90% of all the goods in America - Had 20,000 miles of railroad. -Took advantage of mechanized agriculture and was more productive.
[3.2] The make up of the South
- Had $74 Million in money and bank deposits.
[3.3] In September of 1862, how many Confederate states took up President Abraham Lincoln's deal whereby rebellious states that returned to the Union by January 1st of the following year would be given compensation in exchange for the emancipation of their slaves?
0
[3.4] What Constitutional Amendment was passed in 1868 that defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law?
14th Amendment
[3.4] The Reconstruction period was 1865 to 1877, the Radical Reconstruction period was from _______ to 1877. The Radical _________ believed blacks were entitled to the same ___________ and opportunities as whites. They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be __________ for their roles in the Civil War.
1867; Republicans; political rights; punished
[3.2] The Border states total population was: ______________ of which _____________ were enslaved.
2.5 million; 500 thousand
[3.4] Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865?
Andrew Johnson
[3.2] The Civil War ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at what courthouse?
Appomattox
[3.2] What was the first major battle in the Civil War in July of 1861?
Battle of Bull Run
[3.1] What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War that killed over 50,000 men and was the turning point for the North to win?
Battle of Gettysburg
[3.2] What was the bloodiest battle of the war and the major turning point for a Union victory?
Battle of Gettysburg
[3.3] Some of the language of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address could also be found in his July 1861 message to Congress. In the speech, Lincoln asserted that the true expression of the founding fathers' intentions for the new nation (that all men are created equal and born with unalienable rights) could be found in which document?
Declaration of Independence
[3.3] What other document did Abraham Lincoln refer to in his Gettysburg Address?
Declaration of Independence
[3.3] President Lincoln was not the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, he was asked only to make a few appropriate remarks at the ceremony. The featured speaker at the dedication was _________________ who later wrote to Lincoln and said, "I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
Edward Everett
[3.3] Among other things, the _______________ declared that _____________ would __________ allowed to enlist in the U.S. Army and Navy.
Emancipation Proclamation; black men; now be
[3.3] True or False? The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states that had come under Union control during the course of the war.
False
[3.1] On April 15, 1861 the first shots of the Civil War started when the Confederates fired upon and eventually captured what fort located in Charleston Harbor?
Ft. Sumter
[3.2] Where were the first shots fired that started the Civil War?
Ft. Sumter
[3.2] What was the name of the Confederate's general who attacked General Grant and started the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862? This Confederate general later died on the battlefield, after being shot in the leg?
General Johnston
[3.1] In December 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first State seceded from the United States. By February 1, 1861 six other States had also seceded. Which 7 States seceded?
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi
[3.3] In the _____________ , President Abraham Lincoln said that it was up to the living to ensure that "______________ of the people, by the ____________, for the __________, shall not perish from the earth."
Gettysburg Address; government; people; people
[3.5] What was the nickname that followed Rutherford B. Hayes throughout his 4 years as president?
His Fraudulency
[3.5] _____________ was a black man who tried to board a white-only train in Louisiana (the car designated for blacks was full), he claimed the Louisiana segregation laws violated both his 13th and 14th Amendment rights. The Supreme Court, by a vote of 8-1, ruled that equal rights did not mean co-mingling of the races, effectively legalizing and facilitating "separate but equal" access for blacks.
Homer Plessy
[3.4] After the Civil War three Constitutional amendments altered the nature of African-American rights. They were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. The 13th Amendment was ratified by all states in December 1865, what did it do?
It formally abolished slavery in all states and territories.
[3.3] The Emancipation Proclamation was published in September of 1862, but didn't take effect until when?
January 1863
[3.1] At the Montgomery, Alabama convention in 1861 who was elected president of the new country, formed by the states that had seceded ?
Jefferson Davis
[3.1] Since Abraham Lincoln was not on the Southern States ballot, who won the Southern states in the 1860 presidential election?
John Breckenridge
[3.2] Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln 5 days after the Civil War ended?
John Wilkes Booths
[3.2] Not all of the States that held slaves were part of the Confederacy. There were ones on the 'border' that never left the United States and were critical to the Union in the Civil War. Which 4 States were known as the Border States?
Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland
[3.3] Why didn't the Emancipation Proclamation free all slaves?
Lincoln did not want to antagonize the states which were loyal to the Union.
[3.5] Which of the following 3 states had disputed votes in the Presidential Election of 1876?
Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida
[3.1] Which of the following states WAS NOT one of the original seven Southern states to secede?
North Carolina
[3.4] In 1867, the reconstruction act was passed. The rebel states were divided into 5 military districts. What was one of the requirements that each state had to accomplish if they wanted to return to the Union?
Ratify the 14th Amendment
[3.4] What political party did most of the freed slaves belong to during the reconstruction period?
Republican Party
[3.5] What president finally withdrew all federal troops from the South?
Rutherford B. Hayes
[3.5] Who ran against Rutherford B. Hayes in the presidential election of 1876?
Samuel Tillman
[3.5] The Election of 1876 was a bitter campaign. Even after a 15 man commission was formed to determine the next president, it failed. In the end, a series of backroom deals decided in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. From your choices, which one WAS NOT one of the deals?
Samuel Tillman was elected as Vice-President.
[3.4] When the American Civil War ended in 1865, slaves in southern states finally found themselves legally free. The freed man wanted a paying job, and most former slaves' were best suited for plantation work. Many former slaves found themselves as ___________.
Sharecroppers
[3.4] What agricultural system replaced slavery after President Johnson returned all confiscated and abandoned lands back to their former owners?
Sharecropping
[3.1] What was Abraham Lincoln's stand on the issue of slavery?
Slavery must not be allowed in territories and the Union would not interfere with slavery in current states.
[3.3] Contrary to common belief, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves. What slaves did it free?
Slaves in the rebelling states that had seceded.
[3.1] Rather than accept Abraham Lincoln as the newly elected president, the Southern States called a convention and began to secede from the Union. What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
[3.5] By 1876 only 3 southern states were still under federal regulations, the others were running state governments. What were the 3 southern States still under federal rule?
South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana
[3.4] One of the Reconstruction Amendments was the 15th Amendment. What rights were guaranteed under this amendment?
States couldn't deny the right to vote based on race.
[3.5] In 1880, in _____________, the Court ruled that restriction of juries to whites only was unconstitutional and violated the rights of blacks as stipulated by the 14th Amendment.
Strauder vs. West Virginia
[3.1] The seven states that originally seceded from the Union, formed their own country. What did they call their new nation?
The Confederate States of America (CSA)
[3.5] The Compromise of 1877, its known in African American circles as the _______________.
The Great Betrayal
[3.4] After 1867, most of the violence in the south was political. What racist terrorist group was formed in 1866 and was known to beat and murder men and women and to keep others from voting?
The Ku Klux Klan
[3.1] What party did Abraham Lincoln belong to when he ran for president in 1860?
The Republican Party
[3.3] The Gettysburg Address was probably one of the most important speeches given by Abraham Lincoln. What was one of the important "themes" of the speech?
The United States was one nation.
[3.4] The Civil Rights bill of 1866 was vetoed by President Johnson who believed it would lead to racism against southern white people. What did the congress do that had never been done before?
They overrode the veto by a 2/3 majority so that the Civil Rights Act became law.
[3.5] What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws in the South?
They were a series of rules for separating blacks and whites
[3.2] True or False ? The Union had more than 2 million men enlist for service, compared with 900,000 for the Confederacy.
True
[3.4] True or False ? The fourteenth amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868 prohibited states from depriving any male citizen of equal protection under the law, regardless of race.
True
[3.5] True or False? Reconstruction lasted about 10 years, but the struggle for equal rights for African-Americans continued for another 100 years.
True
[3.2] The "ironclad" ships were a technological advancement during the Civil War as they easily destroyed wooden ships, making the wooden ships obsolete. Two of the most famous icronclads were the Merrimack (renamed the CSS Virginia) and employed by the Confederates. What was the name of Union's ironclad ship?
USS Monitor
[3.4] Who won the presidential election of 1868?
Ulysses S Grant
[3.2] What southern city was under siege for 6 weeks while Union General Grant attempted to capture it? The Union eventually captured the town and were then able to control the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
[3.5] What did the KKK Acts of 1871-1872 try to prevent?
Voter discrimination
[3.2] In 1864, Union General Grant ordered a march from Atlanta, Georgia to the Sea (Savannah, Georgia). He ordered the destruction of everything that could not be consumed. This was a "scorched earth" campaign in which his army either destroyed or killed anything that could be used as a resource by the enemy, including railroads, homes, factories, etc. Which General did Grant send on this mission?
William T. Sherman
[3.2] The South's total population was ________________ of which _______________ were enslaved.
around 9 million ; approximately 3.5 million.
[3.2] The North's population was:
between 18-22 million
[3.1] The language in the Constitution prior to the Civil War, and in the amendments running up to the Civil War the word "slavery," was never used. Instead they employed the euphemisms "__________" and "persons held to labor or service."
domestic institutions
[3.3] One irony of the Emancipation Proclamation was best illustrated by a quote from Secretary of State William Seward: "We show our sympathy with slavery by ___________ slaves where we ___________ and ___________ where we can set them free."
emancipating; cannot reach them; holding them in bondage
[3.1] In the months leading up to the Civil War, and in an effort to try an avoid a crisis between the North and the South, Senator James Henry Crittenden proposed to amend the Constitution to extend the old 36°30' line to the Pacific. All territory North of the line would be forever free, and all territory south of the line would receive _____________________ . However, Republicans refused to support the measure.
federal protection for slavery
[3.4] Former slaves were poor people working under contract for wealthy plantations or farms. They worked the land _______________. However, these contracts were often unfairly designed to keep them poor.
for a portion of the harvest
[3.5] Jim Crow was not a person, but a character created by a white actor in the 1830s. The term "Jim Crow" typically refers to repressive laws and customs once used to
restrict black rights
[3.2] In March 1865, the group who would eventually assassinate President Lincoln developed a plot to kidnap him, take him to Richmond (the Confederate capital) and hold him there. They were going to demand _____________________________.
the return of Confederate prisoners of war
[3.3] In which of the following ways did the Emancipation Proclamation alter the course of the Civil War?
the war would now be fought to expand freedom
[3.4] After ten years, Congress and the radicals grew weary of federal involvement in the South. The withdrawal of ______________ in 1877 brought renewed attempts to strip African-Americans of their newly acquired rights.
union troops